PC for Photo editing

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I am looking for a PC that will mainly be used for photo editing and storing thousands of photos. What should I look for and are there any brands that I should lean towards or stay away from? Other things I will be doing is gerneral e-mail/browsing and som minor office functions.

Thanks!
 
I would like to stay under $1,000 for the tower. Also, this is not something that will be used everyday all day, this is a hobby of mine, but I want a PC that is pretty much dedicated to photo editing.
 
If you are going to 'post edit' your photos using something like Adobe, shudder, Photoshop, then make sure you have a system that can run it ...

Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
Microsoft® Windows 7
1GB of RAM (although 4gig should be the minimum these days)
1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
DVD-ROM drive
QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features (not recommended by me)
Broadband Internet connection required for online services and to validate Subscription Edition (if applicable) on an ongoing basis*


if you gonna use something like the FREE Picasa, then a 486 DX100 with a very large hard drive will do, just kidding, but true. :)

there is no real "specifications" these days for what you intend to do, any of the "entry lvl" PCs should be fine ... just make sure you got a nice big hard drive, and another for spare & backup, and a decent graphics card & monitor to "view" the pics ... run it past us here at PCReview first, wee need a good laugh now-n-then.

oh, welcome to PCReview. :)


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Thanks! I currently have Photoshop Elements and pland to get Lightroom. This helps, once I see a couple I will post the specs for your comments.
 
Whatever you decide on think about backup, do not rely on just your computer to store your pix.

An external hard disk or two or possibly an external caddy that takes several hard disks one at a time would do the job.
 
I agree with the thread, check you specs for the software and then go a little bigger. One note when working with media. Be careful of big external drives like a 1 TB. I've had problems with the files getting corrupted because they get too spread out over the space. I won't go bigger than 500 GB, but I'll use multiple smaller sizes. It also means less loss if a drive crashes.
 
I use a hard disk external dock that takes a variety of SATA disks for backup. Providing the dock is rated for handling disks up to 1Tb (Mine is) I've experienced no problems at all backing up to 1Tb disks.
 
I got all of me good stuff saved, and some, up on the tinternet, hope it don't crash. :)
 
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